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Bouvet Volcano becoming active? (my title)
usgs ^ | 12/08/12 | usgs

Posted on 12/09/2012 9:11:37 AM PST by winoneforthegipper

MAP 5.0 2012/12/09 12:38:40 -54.038 -1.941 9.9 BOUVET ISLAND REGION MAP 5.1 2012/12/07 01:35:09 -54.094 -1.928 17.4 BOUVET ISLAND REGION MAP 5.1 2012/12/06 21:33:26 -54.217 -1.983 12.0 BOUVET ISLAND REGION MAP 4.9 2012/12/06 15:46:50 -54.039 -1.964 18.7 BOUVET ISLAND REGION

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: bouvet; catastrophism; norway; volcano
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If this is indeed volcanic activity, it would give quite the show. Seismic location and depth would suggest magma is moving towards the surface.
1 posted on 12/09/2012 9:11:44 AM PST by winoneforthegipper
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To: SunkenCiv

/mark


2 posted on 12/09/2012 9:12:26 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: winoneforthegipper

That’s not going to bother anybody.


3 posted on 12/09/2012 9:16:46 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Errant; machogirl

Something to watch, the Island is almost completely covered by a glacier. Ice and magma make for a great show although in this case it would be more a satellite one...lol


4 posted on 12/09/2012 9:18:00 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Bouvet making a blivit?


5 posted on 12/09/2012 9:21:05 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: muawiyah

Nope not a soul (least not directly) but the data and the Sat. pics could be awesome. However it is interesting to see a volcano come back to life regardless of the location...

Some back drop on Island.

http://www.volcanolive.com/bouvet.html


6 posted on 12/09/2012 9:22:24 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper
Thanks! I've had my eye on this area for the last few days now... lol

Maybe some intrepid skipper will swing by and take a few pictures/video... ;)

Any idea of when the last erruption occured?

7 posted on 12/09/2012 9:25:34 AM PST by Errant
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To: muawiyah
That’s not going to bother anybody.

"Speak for yourself, mate!"


8 posted on 12/09/2012 9:29:21 AM PST by COBOL2Java (GOPe: Already prepping for their 2016 loss - Jeb Bush!)
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To: muawiyah
A recent interpretation of the Mayan calender said Bouvet Island was going to have big problems.
9 posted on 12/09/2012 9:29:46 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: winoneforthegipper; machogirl
in this case it would be more a satellite one...lol

Unless Machogirl has a webcam link, lol. It not, it'd be a first! :)

10 posted on 12/09/2012 9:30:27 AM PST by Errant
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To: winoneforthegipper
This one is getting ready to blow up at just the right time. Few months back a report was published to the effect that all 'extinct' volcanos can become active again and again and again as magma wells up from the mantle and reheats their cores. Seems the cores are made of material that melts at a lower temperature than other parts of the crust.

Gave me the warm and fuzzies to realize that the half dozen ancient volcanic plugs around Northern Virginia could just turn to tuffa in a month or two and leave us with an even worse traffic jam than we have ever known.

11 posted on 12/09/2012 9:31:05 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Errant

Conflicting reports but at the link I gave there was an Island that vanished thought to be the works of this volcano but it’s classified only as a shield?


12 posted on 12/09/2012 9:31:30 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: muawiyah

If any of the old volcanoes activated along the east coast...I don’t think we would care for we would have already been dust driven...lol


13 posted on 12/09/2012 9:34:08 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

14 posted on 12/09/2012 9:35:23 AM PST by Errant
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To: winoneforthegipper

Bouvet Island
Territory of Norway, South Atlantic Ocean

54.42 S, 3.35 E
summit elevation 780 m
Shield volcano

“Territory of Norway”?

Ahh, those empire building Vikings again!


15 posted on 12/09/2012 9:39:08 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: Errant

Yeah a bit away from the Island but this has a volcanic signature...

Not sure just yet what to make of it.


16 posted on 12/09/2012 9:41:59 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: BwanaNdege

Lol...Val Halla rising?


17 posted on 12/09/2012 9:43:31 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: Errant

lol. Have a question though, if she blows and melts the glacier completely, who is Algore going to blame?

I was just looking at the “phantom islands” around Bouvet earlier this morning. Thompson Island and Saxemberg Island.
Could Bouvet have wiped them out?


18 posted on 12/09/2012 9:45:00 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline, (it's back). 2008, the Decline of America)
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Looks to be more associated with the Shona Hotspot however got to love the name of the ridge...lol

Shaka...lol

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n10/images_article/ngeo1583-f1.jpg


19 posted on 12/09/2012 9:53:15 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

It would help if you told us what country and hemisphere this is in.


20 posted on 12/09/2012 9:55:08 AM PST by omega4179 ( el 0bama comio un perro)
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